The Office of Early Childhood Development within the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) soliciting applications for the Fiscal Year 2023 Tribal Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) Grant Program: Implementation and Expansion Grants.
Donor Name: Administration for Children and Families
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 05/29/2023
Size of the Grant: $1,500,000
Grant Duration: 5 years
Details:
The MIECHV program, administered by HRSA, in collaboration with ACF, responds to the diverse needs of children and families in at-risk communities and provides an opportunity for significant collaboration and partnership at the federal, state, tribal, and community levels to improve health and development outcomes for at-risk children through evidence-based home visiting programs. The goals of the MIECHV program are as follows:
- strengthen and improve the programs and activities carried out under Title V of the Social Security Act, Maternal and Child Health Services Block Grant;
- improve coordination of services for at-risk communities; and
- identify and provide comprehensive services to improve outcomes for eligible families who reside in at-risk communities
The Tribal MIECHV Program
Along with the goals of the overall MIECHV program, the Tribal MIECHV Program has the following specific goals:
- Supporting the development of happy, healthy, and successful AIAN children and families through a coordinated home visiting strategy that addresses critical maternal and child health, development, early learning, family support, and child abuse and neglect prevention needs;
- Implementing high-quality, culturally relevant evidence-based home visiting programs in AIAN communities;
- Expanding the evidence base around home visiting interventions with Native populations; and
- Supporting and strengthening cooperation and coordination and promoting linkages among various programs that serve expectant families, young children, and families, resulting in coordinated, comprehensive early childhood systems in recipient communities.
The Tribal MIECHV program aims to provide critical maternal, infant, and early childhood home visiting services to eligible families in AIAN tribal communities, including Indian tribes or urban Indian centers (as defined by section 4 of the Indian Health Care Improvement Act, Public Law 94-437). For generations, many AIAN peoples have taken care of and attended to the needs of young families in their communities through informal home visits as a traditional cultural practice. More recently, tribal communities have recognized the potential of more structured home visiting programs to support improved child and family outcomes in tribal communities and are implementing a variety of home visiting programs using diverse tribal, public, and private funding streams.
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Funding Amount: $20,000,000
- Maximum Funding Amount: $1,500,000
- Minimum Funding Amount: $250,000
- Length of Project Periods: 60-month project period with five 12-month budget periods
During the 5-year project period of the cooperative agreements, funds will support the following:
- Conducting or updating a coordinated community needs and readiness assessment of at risk tribal communities through a collaborative process that engages all relevant community members and interested parties
- Collaborative planning efforts to address identified needs by developing capacity and infrastructure to fully plan and implement high-quality home visiting programs;
- Providing high-quality culturally grounded, evidence-based home visiting services to expectant families, and parents and primary caregivers of young children aged birth to kindergarten entry;
- Engaging in activities to support stronger early childhood systems and cross-program collaboration in tribal communities to maximize the success of home visiting programs and support the comprehensive needs of expectant families, parents and caregivers, and children from birth to kindergarten entry living in at-risk tribal communities;
- Supporting the mental health of children, families, and program staff, including through infant and early childhood mental health consultation;
- Conducting performance measurement activities and developing or updating a data system and mechanism to measure, track, and report on progress toward meeting legislatively mandated benchmarks for participating children and families;
- Engaging in CQI activities; and Participating in MIECHV-funded evaluation opportunities to promote learning and contribute to the MIECHV Learning.
Eligible Applicants
- Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
